I found this UFO shape cutter from my tiny cutters collection last night. I didn't have any idea to use this cutter last night until this morning when I finished cooking. Suddenly I remembered the leaf picks that I have and the idea to make this pink plants just came like that in my head. I dyed hard boiled egg and cut it with the UFO shapes cutter, added eyes and swirl mouth, put the leaf picks on the top. Whoalah ... easy right? I also made some tiny flowers but the pink color is too soft. I hope you can still see them in between the pink plants. If you see the green swirl in my tamagoyaki, that was because I put scallions. So no special trick needed. It was just a coincidence when I cut it, came out like that :)

Some new bento books have been published. I haven't got the copy yet because they are not available yet at Kinokuniya bookstore here. But I have put those bento books in my wish list. I put the links here, so if you are interested you can order them. They are in Japanese though.

@sundae : Thanks a lot Maki! I am so happy to see your comment here. Hopefully I can get your signature when I am in Tokyo on March / April hehehe ... BTW, I'm going to post the recipe for the braised chicken in coconut milk very soon on My Bloglicious :)

When I first saw your bento with those sweet creatures I immediately thought about pokemons!! Gosh, maybe I play too much video games. :PI loved the idea, they are so tiny cute ^_^!Oh yum, coconut braised chicken sounds too good! ;)

@karaimame : My kids will love to play the Pokemon game with you. They are the fans. I remember there are lot of pink characters in Pokemon. I couldn't recall their names, should open kids' Pokemon Dictionary lol ... Thanks a lot Lilian! I will share the chicken recipe later if I'm making it again (^.^)

Hmm, okay, now they are reminding me of the ghosties of Pac-Man...but actually when I first saw them I thought they would be lovely tulips in that perfectly pink color! I'll have to remember the creative uses you've made when I dig out my UFO cutter!

OMG....I spent all of yesterday reading through your blog. You make some of the cutest bentos I've seen!! I used to make Bentos for my daughter a few years ago and I want to get back into it. You have definitely inspired me:) She was looking through your blog with me and is even now interested in trying new foods thanks to some of your beautiful ideas (a big THANK YOU) she wants me to blog about her bentos too....that I'll have to think about LOL!

@Debra : Thanks a lot Debra! Very appreciate it! I think you should go and blog about your bento. Please let me know if you start your own blog. It will be fun to have one more bento friend through blogging (^.^)